Maccabi Haifa´s midfield player and Croatian national player Giovanni Rosso has been suffering from a sequestrated disc in the lumbar spine for the last 3 months. With strong pains in the left leg, strength and sensation reduction Rosso was unable to run, exercise let alone perform in a game.
Dr. Hoogland operated Mr. Rosso on January 5th 2005. The gentle endoscopic spine surgery – The Endoscopic Nucleotomy- was performed in a safe local anaesthesia. The patient was released pain-free, wearing a light custom made corset on January 6th to return to Haifa (Israel) and take up his physiotherapy program along with light swimming and jogging.
Dr. Hoogland estimated that Giovanni Rosso could return to his normal training routine and re-establish his former shape after about 6-8 weeks.
For more information about the “GREENS” – the traditional Maccabi Haifa football club founded in 1913– please visit their website http://maccabi-haifafc.walla.co.il/
16.05.2008. Dr. Hoogland´s newest paper titled "Endoscopic Transforaminal Discectomy for Recurrent Lumbar Disc Herniation" has been published by the most important professional journal concerning spine disease, the "SPINE JOURNAL".
17.03.2005. Strongman and strongactor Dieter Seidenkranz has undergone an Endoscopic Spine surgery after an injury of his spine and longlasting back-pain.
22.02.2005. Spine-Specialists met in Munich to discuss and introduce the newest trends and methods / Spinal diseases increase world-wide / lack of exercise viewed as chief cause / Specialisation becomes increasingly important / The future of spine-surgery belongs to minimal-invasive methods /
22.02.2005. Dutch cabaret artist, Peter de Jong, more familiar to his audience as Maxi - the "larger" part of favoured duo Mini & Maxi - was operated on by Dr. Hoogland on two herniated levels of the cervical spine.
22.02.2005. Spine-Specialists met in Munich to discuss and introduce the newest trends and methods / Spinal diseases increase world-wide / lack of exercise viewed as chief cause / Specialisation becomes increasingly important / The future of spine-surgery belongs to minimal-invasive methods /
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